They really behaved very well, and the Boy was enormously proud of his new friends.

"Ah, I know very well there's none of that in the South: you folks object to free speech; they killed poor old Brown for it; that's what you made war for, to silence free speech," Dick cried hotly, while Merry pinched his arm in terror.

" "Very well.

I know him very well.

This being clear at last, the newcomer said: "Oh, very well!

"I understood her very well, and when I left her I saw my course plain before me.

It was so maternal that he expected at any moment she might brush his hair, straighten his necktie, and beg him not to sit up too late, but his instinct told him it was the only tone he was ever likely to hear from her, and so he said reluctantly, "Very well; I confess that I really rely on your judgment, and I will decline the invitation.

It is all very well to try to do old school friends a spot of good, but I could not but feel that in espousing the cause of a lunkhead capable of mucking things up as Gussie had done, I had taken on a contract almost too big for human consumption.

O'Brallaghan informed Mr. Jinks that the going out had nothing to do with it, and that he, Jinks, knew very well that he, O'Brallaghan, objected to nothing but the tone assumed toward himself by the said Jinks, whose airs were not to be endured, and, in future, would not be, by him.

" "Very well.

"Very well, there is your dinner.

"Very well," said his father; "you are willing to go with him, I suppose, Jonas, are you not?"

"I remember very well that we haven't.

Police doing very well, I thinkmust be Goujon.

I knew very well what that meant.

" "Very well, miss.

You know very well that his face and form are going to be remembered and noticed, yet he wasn't in any rogue's gallery, in any city.

" "Very well," said the squire.

" The stranger assured him that he knew very well who he was, and cared not a straw what opinions they accused him of; that he was going to have a company of Friends at dinner, who wished to converse with him.

What does that mean?" "It may not be exactly that," said Mrs. Perley, quickly, "and we all know very well, Mrs. Cliff, that you are naturally sensitive on a point like this.

Nickola said "very well," so got under way, and run for her, having a light westerly wind.

But, as I knew very well, there was no guide-post at any corner, and presently he came to the middle of the roads again and stood, looking this way and that, as if still in a dubious mood.

Bog bowed and scraped and blushed, and murmured "Thank you, very well," several times, confusedly, and at last settled down into a chair which was pushed under him by Pet.

Pinching my cheek with her fat fingers, which were covered with red and green rings, she said, "We shall do very well together.

He even carried about him, as constantly as his clothes, a picture of the Blessed Virgin, very well painted on paper, and he declared to El Comendador that it was because of it that he was always victorious.